Leadership

Thomas Kim

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Master designer Thomas Kim has over 20 years of marketing and design leadership experience. In 2000, Thomas founded MindlinQ, Inc., where he led all efforts to successfully deliver large design and development projects for clients such as Asiana Airlines, Fox Home Entertainment, Disney Online, E! Online, LA18, and many others.

Prior to MindlinQ, Thomas served as the Chief Creative Officer for MindStack, a subsidiary of the Internet incubator BrainRush, where he led a team of designers and programmers responsible for 90 percent of BrainRush’s portfolio companies. Before MindStack, he led projects for Lightstorm Entertainment, Hearst Animation and Disney.

Thomas was one of the pioneers in developing E! Online with its webcast of events of major motion picture releases such as James Bond, Austin Powers, Star Wars – The Phantom Menace, and awards ceremonies such as The Academy Awards, The Golden Globe and Grammy Awards. He is a graduate of Art Center College of Design, Pasadena.

Michael Song

President

For more than a decade, Michael Song has been immersed in sports marketing, entertainment marketing, promotions, advertising, and technology/software development. During his career, Michael earned a wealth of experience as founder and chief executive of Visure Corp., an entertainment marketing company dedicated to allowing consumers to search the Internet and purchase products used in movies and television, otherwise known as product placements.

As CEO, Michael raised millions of dollars in venture capital, secured partnerships with major e-commerce companies, including Amazon, Circuit City, Fandango, and Apple/iTunes to name a few, as well as multiple product placement and public relations firms, representing brands including Google, Johnson & Johnson, Logitech, and Polycom. Michael has spoken at premier trade events and colleges and universities, and he has appeared in BusinessWeek, in Brandweek, and on Bloomberg television.

Previously, Michael has enjoyed time at Atlanta Motor Speedway, as a player on the Korean National Lacrosse Team, and at Planet Central Advertising. Michael has a B.S. in Marketing from Lehigh University with minors in African-American Literature and in Writing, and he has studied at the Korean Language Institute at Yonsei University in Seoul. Michael also enjoys coaching the Hollywood Bears youth lacrosse program and teaching computer to children in Belize.

Joe Chung

Creative and Programming Director

Beginning his career at a small design firm in 2000, Joe Chung has over a decade of experience in the design industry. In 2002, Joe endeavored into digital/online media – creating a comprehensive internet directory targeted to 20,000 Korean Americans within the Southern California. Within 12 months of its inception, the company expanded to 4 cities and catered to over 100,000 Korean Americans before its acquisition.

In 2003, Joe joined the startup team of MySpace.com as a Senior Designer, where his responsibilities included liaising advertising and marketing campaigns for MySpace.com and advertisers/agencies throughout the world. Joe has contributed vision and dictated procedures for a proprietary targeted- advertising platform which led to a $900MM exclusivity partnership between MySpace.com and Google in 2006. Respectively, MySpace.com and its parent company (InterMix Media) was acquired by News Corporation for $580MM in the same year.

Throughout his career, Joe has created, approved and/or directed $400MM+ in advertising campaigns, promotions and strategic advertising partnerships for companies throughout the globe, including Apple, Microsoft, Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Forbes, Paramount Studios, Warner Brothers, Viacom, FOX and Disney.

Inki Cho

Account Manager

With a core background in illustration, animation, design, and web development, Inki serves as Account Manager for MindlinQ to clients including KoreAm Magazine, Audrey Magazine, Kabuki Japanese Restaurant, BCD Tofu House, and Cloud b. As Account Manager, organizing projects, scopes, and budgets, Inki ensures clients are constantly updated and deliverables are sent by deadline.

Prior to joining MindlinQ, Inki managed operations, inventory, and media at Ekko Church in Buena Park, CA. At Ekko, Inki also handled Website design, blog design, photography, filmography, video editing, graphic design, print, typography, slide design, and presentations.

Originally from Seoul, Korea, but raised in Orange County, Inki comes from Concept Design Academy in Pasadena, CA.